Dateime Parse method adding one day to input date

Question

I am reading a date from an xml file and parsing it to a my desired format. It i adding a day to the date and i cant seem to figure out why.

input : 2014-02-12T15:21:19-08:00 output : 13 Feb 2014 01:21

Here is my code to parse date:

string date = DateTime.Parse(row["CountDate"].ToString()).ToString("dd MMM yyyy HH:mm");

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

The reason is that the timezone information is being used to adjust the time to your local time zone.

If you remove the "-08:00" suffix, you'll find that the time won't be adjusted. However, you need to know whether the timezone information is important before ignoring it!